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Americans Remain Pessimistic
About Iraq Situation, Poll Finds

The Wall Street Journal Online

Updated May 26, 2006 11:59 p.m. ET

Public opinion of President Bush's handling of Iraq has changed little since March, a new Harris Interactive poll shows, with two-thirds of U.S. adults rating his handling of the situation there as "poor" or "only fair" and 29% rating his work as "excellent" or "pretty good."

The online poll of 2,085 adults also shows many Americans remain pessimistic about Iraq: Sixty-one percent said they...